Christoph Dieckmann (journalist)

Christoph Dieckmann (born January 22, 1956 in Rathenow , Potsdam district , GDR ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

Christoph Dieckmann was born in Rathenow in 1956 as the son of a pastor . He grew up in Dingelstedt am Huy and Sangerhausen . In Sangerhausen he was refused admission to high school. First he began an apprenticeship as a projectionist in Langenau in Saxony in 1972 , but was expelled from school for disciplinary reasons shortly before the final examination. With a one year delay, he passed the skilled worker examination in 1975 and then studied theology at the Theological Seminary in Leipzig and at the Evangelical Language Convict in East Berlin . Dieckmann lives in Berlin- Niederschönhausen and is married for the second time. His daughter was born in 1983, his son in 1995.

Act

After studying theology (1975 to 1981), Dieckmann was vicar of the Evangelical Student Congregation of East Berlin and Berlin-Buch in 1982/1983 , then worked in the theological studies department of the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR until 1986 and then until 1990 as a church media officer Ecumenical Missionary Center / Berlin Mission Community and as a freelance writer. He wrote first for church newspapers in the GDR , then for the cultural-political weekly newspaper in the GDR Sunday (from 1990 Friday ). With a grant from the US World Press Institute, he traveled to the USA for six months in 1990. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Dieckmann has worked for the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die Zeit since 1991, editor until 2005 and author since 2005. For a long time he was the only East German editor in the Berlin office of Zeit .

Dieckmann mainly writes essays and reports about life in the late GDR, the new federal states , rock music , but also about sport (especially football ; formerly monthly for the magazine for football culture 11 Freunde ). A frequent object is the FC Carl Zeiss Jena . He has published numerous books.

Fonts

1990 Olle GDR.
1991 My Generation. Cocker, Dylan, Lindenberg and the lost time.
1992 Oh! Great! Wonderful! - Beginners in America.
1993 Time stood still, the clocks of life were running. Stories from the German Murkelei.
1994 Everything in the bucket, everything in balance.
1995 Time is on my side. A German homeland book.
1998 Real life in the wrong one. Stories of East German Identity. (2002 as audio book )
1999 My Generation. Cocker, Dylan, Honecker and the rest of the time.
2000 behind the seven mountains. Stories from the German Murkelei.
2001 People remain people. German stories.
2002 Love in the days of country films. Stories experienced specifically.
2004 The Jena Report.
2005 always backwards. German remembering .
2009 I am amazed that I am happy .
2012 freedom I mean. Untold stories .
2013 A love in the east. The Jena Report and other blue-gold-white football stories .
2017 My Occident. Stories of German origin .

Most of Christoph Dieckmann's books are published by Ch. Links Verlag .

Others

Speech on the anniversary of German unification in Halberstadt October 3, 2010 PDF (accessed June 2018)

Awards

1990: Scholarship from the World Press Institute in St. Paul (Minnesota) with a "six-month US exploration trip"
1992: International Journalism Prize in Klagenfurt
1993: Theodor Wolff Prize
1994: Egon Erwin Kisch Prize
1996: Friedrich Märker Prize for essayists
2017: Caroline Schlegel Prize (main prize) for the essay Mein Abendland. The east connection

literature

Christoph Dieckmann , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/2005 from October 15, 2005, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)